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This past week the grueling Apple v. Samsung patent infringement dispute came to a close as the jury decided in only 3 days that Samsung needs to pay Apple $1.05 billion dollars for patent infringement on a number of their devices. After almost 50 hours of testimony, and jury instructions with over 600 questions to…
With the recent legal defeat that Samsung suffered at the hands of Apple, many investors have been worried that this may affect Samsung profits in the years to come. One possible outcome of this decision would be Samsung agreeing to pay a license royalty on every device they make that uses an Apple patent. This…
Facebook has re-built their iOS App from the ground up. Their developers went back to the drawing board to figure out how to trim of any excess code, features, and anything that might slow down its performance. The Facebook App, while still largely successful, has always been a little bit slow. Page takes too long…
The Samsung SCH-i200 Jasper was first brought up in the middle of the summer as a mid-range phone hitting Verizon. It has now sneakily made its way into Best Buy Mobile under the name of the Galaxy Stellar. Strange thing is, both Verizon and Samsung failed to mention this in any announcement. Besides the secretive…
Lenovo has been working sneakily behind the scenes on a smartphone/tablet like device. The chinese based manufacturer has been rumored to launch a phablet called the K860, with a quad-core CPU and 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) display. Well, the rumors are no more. Lenovo has finally confirmed that the handset will be hitting stores tomorrow,…
We’ve had an idea of how the new iPhone would look for quite some time now. Many pictures have leaked on the internet suggesting the same industrial design with a slightly larger screen and an 8-pin dock connector. Well, just when you thought the leaks would come to an end, think again. More images of…
Last week was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Samsung. The company expected at least some successes in its counter suit against Apple Inc. in the patent infringement case in San Jose, yet were handed a lopsided loss, including in the all important 3G wireless technology patent Samsung holds. Company executives were…
In the first day of trading since the $1.05 billion ruling in Apple’s favor in the patent infringement case with Samsung, Apple’s stock is trading up around 2% at around $675, giving the company a market cap of around $635 billion, or $15 million more than it’s record-setting day last week. Meanwhile, shares of Samsung…
There’s a lot to like about Microsoft’s Windows 8 and it’s use in tablet computers. While the Surface tablets have gotten much of the press coverage, several developers undeterred by Microsoft’s decision to release their own line of tablets continue their work on upcoming models. Samsung’s Series 5 Hybrid PC is an ASUS Transformer-esque device…
The late Steve Jobs swore that he would destroy Android; He accused Google of creating an outright copy of Apple’s ridiculously successful iOS. “I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this,” he promised, and while he didn’t live to see the recent ruling of the Apple v. Samsung case citing patent infringement on the part…